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CAN FOR LIQUID GLUE. No. 387,982. Patented Aug. 14, 1888.

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CHARLES M. hIIARTIN, OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE LE PAGES LIQUID GLUE AND CEMENT COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE, AND

OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

CAN FOR LIQUID GLUE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,982, dated August 14, 1888.

Application filed December 8, 1887. Serial No. 257,269. (No model-) To aZZ whom it may concern.-

'Be it known that I, CHARLES M. MARTIN, of Gloucester, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Cans for Liquid Glue and other Adhesive Materials, of which the following is a specification.

Cans for mucilage and liquid glue have been made with screw caps and covers, and in some IO instances the tubular handle of the brush has been soldered to the cover. These caps often become stuck by the adhesive material, and cannot easily be unscrewed, and the brushhandle is likely to be broken away from the inside of the cap.

My invention is made for removing both of these difficulties; and it consists in the combination,in a can for adhesive material, with the sheet-metal screw-cap, of a flat strip of metal bent to form a bow, and securely fastened at its ends to the cap, so as to form a wrench for unscrewing the cap, and the tubular metal handle of the brush is passed vertically through a hole in the cap and in contact with the how 2 5 and soldered to the cap and bow, respectively, so that there is no risk of thehandlebreaking away from the cap when the brush is being used.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sec- 3,0 tion of the can, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

The can A is usually of sheet metal, but may be of any other suitable materiah-such as glass or porcelain-with a screw thread 5 around the neck at 2, and an inward flange at 3, against which the surplus mucilage or glue can be wiped off from the brush. The cap B is of sheet metal ,with a screw-threaded flange to fit the screw-thread upon the neck, and usually there is a washer of indie-rubber at C,beo tween theunder side of the cap and the flange 3.

The bow D is of sheetmetahwith the edges folded over and the ends bent to form flanges which are soldered firmly to the top of the cap, and this bow is usually bent into a rectangular 4.5 form, and it stands up above the top of the cap sufficiently to form a wrench or hand-hold that can be grasped firmly in unscrewing the cap.

The brush E is provided with a tubular sheet-metal handle, F, that passes through the center of the cap, and also goes through ahole in the bow or terminates against the under side of the how, the parts being soldered together where the handle goes through the cap and when it comes in contact with the how, so that the brush and cap are very firmly connected together, and the brush is always in position for use. The surplus adhesive material is scraped off against the edge of the flange 3.

I claim as my invention-- The combination, ina can for adhesive materiahwith the removable sheetunetal screwcap, of a fiat strip of sheet metal bent to form a bow and soldered at its ends to the outside of the cap, a separate metallic handle passing vertically through a hole in the cap and in contact with the bow and soldered to the cap and to the bow, and a brush at its lower end, I substantially as set forth. 7o

Signed by me this lstday of December, 1887.

CHARLES M. MARTIN.

Witnesses:

WM. N. LE PAGE, MAY E. MARSHALL. 

